What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

"Sky Arts is screening back-to-back interviews with the Hitchens brothers: writer Peter who's known for his conservative and pro-religious stance and writer Christopher who's liberal, left-wing and antitheist (look it up, we had to)."

Hitch looked like hell but then the lighting looked poor and Laurie Taylor himself looked over 100. Not bad. No fireworks but a welcome change from the cut and paste Hitch interview we've become familiar with where he gets asked all the same questions and replies with his tired best of Hitch routine.

Does anyone know how the full interview can be viewed on Sky's (or other) internet site? I am only able to see the "video cut" which is maddeningly short. I tried locating this information on the Sky site and got nowhere. Somewhere, it's stated that viewers outside the UK and Ireland can view Sky videos (on demand) via the Internet but I'll be damned if I can figure out how. Any help will be appreciated.

Well you are correct his rhetoric is not at all like Bernie Sanders, however its well known that Marxists have a deep rooted dislike for liberals who they see as being moral compromisers, for example Slavoj Zizek (a famous Marxist) has spent his life attacking liberals and has stated that the anti-war movement (while being against the war in Iraq himself) is "intellectually lazy"